Books : Confessions: Books I-Xiii
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by: Saint, Bishop of Hippo Augustine, F. J. Sheed, Peter Robert Lamont Brown
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 270.2092
EAN: 9780872201866
ISBN: 0872201864
Label: Hackett Pub Co Inc
Manufacturer: Hackett Pub Co Inc
Number Of Pages: 296
Publication Date: 1993-10
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc
Sales Rank: 206804
Studio: Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Rating: - Take and read!
Augustine's 'Confessions' is among the most important books ever written. One of the first autobiographical works in the modern sense, it also represents the first time a psychological and theological enterprise were combined. It also helps to bridge the gap between the Classical world and the Medieval world, exhibiting strong elements identifying with each of those major historical periods.
Most undergraduates in the liberal arts encounter the book at some point; all seminarians do ... Read More
Rating: - The best translation of St. Augustine's Confessions
Let me put it this way, and I quote another translator of this book, "You have not read 'Confessions' until you have read the Sheed translation."
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